A platform game (or platformer) is a video game characterized by requiring the player to jump to and from suspended platforms or over obstacles.
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Why is my collision resolution failing on the corners?
I'm tearing my hair out trying to work out how to handle my collision resolution at the corners of the rectangles that I'm colliding with.
The code that I'm working with is:
class Player(object):
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“Super meatboy”-ish replay
I'm making a platformer built from mini-levels - and I want to create a sort of a replay of all the player tries that the player did for the level.
My question is - what is the best way to record the ...
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Impulsioned jumping
There's one thing that has been puzzling me, and that is how to implement a 'faux-impulsed' jump in a platformer. If you don't know what I'm talking about, then think of the jumps of Mario, Kirby, and ...
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Managing shots of the player
I'm currently developing a 2D Jump'n'Run and the situation is the following: The player has different weapons he can collect and is then able to shoot the weapon's projectiles (laser, rockets, ...
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Tile-based maps in AS3
I want to make a tile-based platformer in AS3.
I want my game to read an external maps file (in xml or json or somethimg similar) to draw a tile-based map.
I've seen loads of tutorials for this in ...
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Storing large array of tiles, but allowing easy access to data
I've been thinking about this for a while. I have a 2D tile bases platformer in XNA with a large array of tile data, I've been running into memory problems with large maps. (I will add chunks soon!)
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Game Physics: Implementing Normal Reaction from ground correctly
I am implementing a simple side scrolling platform game. I am using the following strategy while coding the physics:
Gravity constantly acts on the character.
When the character is touching the ...
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Platform game collisions with Block
I am trying to create a platform game and doing wrong collision detection with the blocks.
Here's my code
// Variables
GTimer jump = new GTimer(1000);
boolean onground = true;
// The update method
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What's the best way to handle slopes for a platfomer game using Box2D
I would like to know if there is any known solution for handling the player's movement on slopes using Box2D engine.
I tried to do it using a circle as the player. Everything was fine until I tried ...
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Trouble with AABB collision response and physics
I have been racking my brain trying to figure out a problem I am having with physics and basic AABB collision response. I am fairly close as the physics are mostly right. Gravity feels good and ...
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Artifacts when using SamplerState.LinearClamp in SpriteBatch
I'm using XNA 4.0 and VS2010 Express for Windows Phone and Windows Phone SDK 7.1.
This is a platform game and I have a map made up of 16x16 textures that is drawn dynamically, tile by tile.
When ...
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Detecting a ledge in Box2D [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Detect Open Space in Farseer
How do I detect ledges?
I'm making a 2D platformer with Box2D. The player needs to be able to grab onto a ledge and pull him/herself up.
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One-way platform collision
I hate asking questions that are specific to my own code like this, but I've run into a pesky roadblock and could use some help getting around it. I'm coding floating platforms into my game that will ...
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Platformer Enemy AI
I'm currently developing a platformer shooter. The game is multiplayer and while my net code could use some real work I have put that off for the time, so currently I'm trying to implement the AI.
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Platformer gravity where gravity is greater than tile size
I am making a simple grid-tile-based platformer with basic physics.
I have 16px tiles, and after playing with gravity it seems that to get a nice quick Mario-like jump feel, the player ends up moving ...
